CONSERVATIVES IN OFFICE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17382, 10 November 1924, Page 10

CONSERVATIVES IN OFFICE.

MINISTERS SWORN IN.

By Telegraph—Prtrs Association —Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON. November 8. By a strange coincidence- the transfer of the seals of office at Buckingham Palace synchronised with the changing of the guards at the Palace. The Prince of Wales and Prince Arthur of Connaught attended a meeting of the Privy Council at which the Ministers were sworn in. Mr Churchill drove straight from the palace and took up his duties at Downing Street. Mr Chamberlain later took over the Foreign Office. The only new appointment announced is that of Commander 13. M. EyresMonsell, as Chief Whip. Mr Baldwin has gone to Chequers for the week-end. Mr MacDonald has gone to Oxford for a holiday. Mr J. H. Thomas is alreadv back in the Railway Union headquarters. Commander B. M. Eyres-Monsell represents Evesham. He was Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty in the late Mr Bonar Law’s Ministry and became Chief Whip in the succeeding Conservative Ministry. DISSOLUTION HONOURS. Beuter's Telegrams. EON DON. November 9. Two ex-Ministers William Graham, Financial Secretary to the Treasury and Mr Ben Spoor, Chief Whip, have been appointed Privy Councillors. Mr MacDonald’s dissolution list is the shortest on record. It contains five names : Messrs Graham and Spoor, as above, the others being a K.C.M.G. for Sir Cecil Hurst. Legal Adviser to the Foreign Office, and C-V.O. for Mr Walford Selby, and Mr Charles P. Duff, private secretaries to Mr MacDonald at the Foreign Office and the Treasury. COLONIAL SECRETARY APPOINTED. LONDON, November 8. The Press, generally, approves of Mr L. C. JM. S. Amery’s appointment as Secretary of State for the Colonies. The ‘Morning Post” says: “We rejoice that Mr Amery has been appointed to the Colonial Office. There arc few politicians with a greater knowledge or sounder views on Imperial problems.” The “ Daily Telegraph "’ considers Mr Amery likely to have an exceptionally difficult time with Ireland, which is now part of the dominionsThe “ Daily Chronicle ” says Mr Amery was always a. stalwart protectionist and a die-hard.